2009 UPDATES!!
Hey everyone!
I am extremely sorry I haven't updated in so long! I've been so busy though. This years hillclimb season is going great!! Round 1 and 2 were so much fun and went really well. As of right now I am on a break for my season, the spring rounds ended in April and now we all have to wait until October for the fall rounds! I am stoked and cannot wait until round 3! So now that I have the time to update you all on how the 2009 hillclimb season and riding is going, I will (:
Okay, first we will start off with the beginning of the year before the start of the season. So January, February and the first week of March were all practice/training months to get ready for round 1 in March. I went out to Carnegie just about every weekend or at least every other weekend to get in as much practice in the hills as I possibly could! Those weekends of practice went great and they really helped out! I practiced my starts the most & then went on to all of the challenging hills to get me ready. I was definitely pumped for the season to start.
Now I'll get you all updated on round 1. So round 1 was a good weekend, we pulled into Carnegie around noon and unloaded everything and got everything all situated. After all of that, my brother and I geared up and went out and practiced for a bit, we ended up running into some of our friends so we practiced with them for a while and all got ready for race day. Saturday morning I got up early to get dressed and go pick up my wrist bands and little sticker that tells you what rider you'll be to go up the hill when it's your classes turn. The weather wasn't all that great, it was windy and cold, but we all still managed to do good. This year I moved up to Womens 101-125 B division now that I am 17. So my first run didn't go as well as I would have liked it to, I took the wrong line and ended up looping half way up the hill, my second run I picked a good line and ended up doing much better! I made it over the hill with a 19 second run, which is pretty good for being on a KX100, my time was just as fast as some of the girls on 250s! So I ended up bringing home 1st place that weekend!
Round 2, so this weekend went just as good as round 1, this round I ran both womens 101-125 B & boys 125 stock B. On Saturday I ran the womens class and ended up doing really well, even though my time was a second slower than my time at round one I still finished 1st place in my division & keeping my lead in the points series! Sunday is when I ran the boys 125 stock and let me tell you I was very nervous! Haha, usually I never get nervous but this time I was. Only because I was running the second toughest hill there & being the smallest bike on that hill was very surprising to many people there! I am like the 6th girl to ever run that hill! It was pretty exciting! I ended up getting 2nd place and making it more than half way up the shotgun hill (that's what that hill is called), I was a little bummed that I didn't make it over but I was still happy with how far I went. Haha..
So now I am getting ready for rounds 3 and 4! And let me tell you, I am more pumped than ever! I am very determined to get a faster time on the sportsman hill (which is the hill I run the womens class on) and to either get further on shotgun hill or even more determined to make it over, which I really hope I do! And I know I can, I just need to do it! So those are all the updates I have for you right now (:
Until then, stay safe, have fun & take care!
-Lori 291